<p>When you create a new project, you are required to specify the project type. This project type will determine the toolchain and data, and tabs that the CDT uses. In the New CDT Project Wizard, you can choose from the following project types:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Executable</b> - Provides an executable application. This project type folder contains three templates.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Hello World C++ Example</b> provides a simple C++ Hello World application with main().
<li><b>Hello World ANSI C Example</b> provides a simple C Hello World application with main().<li><b>Empty Project</b> provides a single source project folder that contains no files.
</ul>
<p>After you select a template, the result is a project with only the meta-data files required for the project type. You are expected to modify these source files, as required, and provide source files for the project's target.</p><p>The makefile for the <b>Executable</b> project type is automatically created by the CDT.</p>
<li><b>Shared Library</b> - An executable module that is compiled and linked separately. When you create a project that uses a shared library (libxx.so), you define your shared library's project as a Project Reference for your application. For this project type, the CDT combines object files together and joins them so they're relocatable and can be shared by many processes. Shared libraries are named using the format
<li><b>Static Library</b> - A collection of object files that you can link into another application (libxx.a). The CDT combines object files (i.e. *.o)
into an archive (*.a) that is directly linked into an
executable.</p><p>The makefile for this project type is automatically created by the CDT.
<li><b>Makefile Project</b> - Creates an empty project without the meta-data files. This selection is useful for importing and modifying existing makefile-based projects; a new makefile is not created for this project type.
